April 29 – Flying Tomato fundraiser

The Flying Tomato has offered to donate 20% of their sales on April 29th and on April 30th to the Spanaway Concerned Citizens fight for the Spanaway Marsh! We are so grateful for this opportunity! In order for us to receive this generous donation, they ask that you print out and present the attached flyer when placing your order…

Please, protect the water – a poem

TO THE HEARING EXAMINER Please, protect the water                                        at the heart of our community—The Spanaway Marsh may mean little to some, but not to us. It is our arterial blood,our breath, our home. We are done with the hundred-year destructionof filled-in wetlands, re-routed streams,toxic human pollution and buildings too closeto these arteries of life.  We are done with…

Saturday walk at Spanaway Marsh

By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway Concerned Citizens is raising money to fight a Pierce County Executive’s project to build a village of tiny homes to house homeless individuals with drug, alcohol and mental health problems. These are the hardest people to bring into a stable housing situation. There is a plan. (You can see it at…

Historical road from Nisqually to Spanueh Station

Historical information on Spanaway, Spanueh Station of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, and native uses of the area Testimony for the Hearings Examiner on Pierce County Village, April 29, 2024 To local Indians, the area was referred to as “spáduwe” – “where [camas or fern] roots are plentiful”.[1] Multiple tribes used the area for hunting…

Village deadline for written comments April 22

Regarding the April 29 hearings on the Tiny Home Village, Pierce County Village, or whatever they are calling it this week…. All written comments & concerns should be submitted in writing to the Hearings Examiner by Monday April 22nd, for his review to: pchearingexaminer@piercecountywa.gov If you have no idea what I am talking about, read…

Lakewood, what have you wrought?

Don Anderson (Mayor/City Council), followed by Steve O’Ban (State Senator), both attorneys and officials from Lakewood, worked on County Executive Bruce Dammeier’s proposal to put a community of tiny homes in the watershed above Spanaway Lake. The city recently voted to contribute $1,000,000 to the effort. On the other side of the military base, lake…

April 8 – eat at El Toro in Parkland

On April 8, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., 20% of the proceeds at the Parkland El Toro will go toward the purchase of the historic Parkland School building for a local community center! Bring your friends and family, have a great fiesta and support your community at the same time! Members of the Parkland…

Blue Zones Cooking Class, SLHS April 5

This Friday, April 5, Blue Zones Project will be hosting a brand-new cooking demonstration program. We’ll have seating for up to 100 people so make to invite your friends, families, and co-workers. Spanaway Lake High School Cooking Demo – April 5th, 2024 @ 6PM. There’s a brand-new Walking Moai that’s meeting every Wednesday at 6PM at Spanaway Lake…

Final Donation Push for Parkland – please give now

The Parkland community learned in May 2022, that PLU was planning to sell it to developers who had applied to demolish the Eastside Campus, aka Historic Parkland School. A group of citizens reformed the Parkland Community Association (PCA) and have worked to raise awareness and raise money to purchase the building from PLU instead of…